{"id":40551,"date":"2015-05-05T13:20:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=40551"},"modified":"2022-06-14T11:41:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T10:41:20","slug":"saab-900-turbo-cabrio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/saab-900-turbo-cabrio\/","title":{"rendered":"Saab 900 Turbo Cabrio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In our feature article \u2018The Quiet Collaborator\u2019 (Influx April Edition) we refer to the Saab 90 as a classic of the Oeuvre, and so it was.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But when you close your eyes and picture the perfect Saab, <em>the<\/em> Classic Saab, we\u2019d bet an IKEA meatball dinner that you\u2019d be conjuring an image of the 900 Cabriolet.<\/p>\n<p>That strained Swedish allusion is however mute, as apart from being commissioned there, this Saab had little to do with the company\u2019s home turf.<\/p>\n<p>When the brief went out in the early 1980s for a 900 convertible a number of firms built prototypes, including Saab HQ, who used the three door hatch as their base model.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11074621_942484925792036_3534666964364672734_o.jpg\" alt=\"11074621_942484925792036_3534666964364672734_o\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>In the end though it was our Finnish friends at Valmet Automotive who won the contract, basing their design around the 900 two door. So this piece of car history went into production in Finland in 1986 and although it was started as a limited run the Finnish factory produced over 198,000 of them in total.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re struggling to believe that this classic piece of Swedish iconography was designed, built and manufactured exclusively in a small town in Finland then here are some rare shots (courtesy of Valmet Automotive) of the prototype on the Finnish production line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Quiet Collaborator rides again!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11079511_942484859125376_5250258246380681928_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11079511_942484859125376_5250258246380681928_o.jpg\" alt=\"11079511_942484859125376_5250258246380681928_o\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish- Swedish collab from Saab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779],"tags":[1286,1135,955,2053,1272,2659,1227],"class_list":["post-40551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cars","tag-cars","tag-classic-cars-2","tag-road","tag-saab","tag-sports-cars","tag-swedish","tag-swedish-cars","manufacturers-saab"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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